Dispatch to My Fellow Americans #003

some thoughts up until the 2022 election

Being Americans is our generic commonality, our common denominator, our common ground. No matter what our individual uniqueness is, what groups we identify with, what our circumstances are, the big circle drawn around all of us together is being Americans. In the very fractionated and deeply divided political environment we seem to currently be in, we all need to take a deep breathe and see ourselves as a whole.

We as Americans are disserved by those who wish to throw shade on our electoral process in an attempt to create distrust based on false conspiracy theories and an utter lack of any credible facts to support them. The facts instead support the reality that Americans work, and in good faith, to maintain our democratic processes. How so many of us can fall for these shenanigans is, quite frankly, disappointing and insulting to our group intelligence. Naturally, if any of this election fraud were true, we would all be up at arms but the real fraud is the suggestion that our election workers, top to bottom, are all corrupt (except when rethuglicans win). That is such an obvious and misguided conspiratorial phantasma that most of us have to wonder what kind of mental bubble people have to be living in to actually invest themselves and their sense of reality into it at, by the way, everyone’s expense.

It should be obvious to all by now that the loser Donald J. Trump, who, acting only in his own personal dim sighted best interest, is the primary instigator of this dangerous foolishness supported by the grifter Rethuglican industry around him who seek to profit from supposedly patriotic fearmongering. This is not patriotism, this is thuggery of epidemic proportion. Those pushing the conspiracy are the actual conspirators themselves with the support of those who bury their heads in the sand and fail to think for themselves, who prefer tribe over country.

As Americans we all have to depend on the goodwill of each other for our mutual benefit. We have to trust in each other to do what is right in order to continue forward and this requires that each of us does our part and shake ourselves out of the disillusion that so many are suffering from. Wake up folks, shake it off. All hands on deck.

"We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin

America is a place where Americans move forward together not backward. If this were not true we would still be a colony of England.